Sans stars, teams to fight it out in quarters

DNMUM402530 | 12/7/2017 | Author : DNA Correspondent | WC :215

RANJI TROPHY
Mumbai: It may be a point for debate that the India players bound for South Africa get more match practice by playing in the Ranji Trophy quarterfinals starting on Thursday. But, the BCCI has not allowed any of the India pacers, Ishant Sharma (Delhi), Md Shami (Bengal), Jasprit Bumrah (Gujarat) and Umesh Yadav (Vidarbha) as also opening batsman KL Rahul (Karnataka) to turn out for their respective teams as the eight best teams after the league stage fight for supremacy.While Rahul will be nursing a niggle, the four pacers will be rested as they have played too much cricket over the last year or so and that the Ranji teams have done better to reach this stage without them, though some of them appeared at some stage oRead full story

r the other for their Ranji sides.Meanwhile, 41-time champions Mumbai take on a stronger Karnataka, who have the season’s highest run-scorer, Mayank Agarwal in their ranks. Mumbai are without Ajinkya Rahane and Shreyas Iyer, who have been named in the ODI squad against Sri Lanka starting on December 10.

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